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- AI Tea Coordinators: Kaijain Zou & Angana Borah
- AI Seminar Tsar: Ziqiao Ma
- Friday Night AI Coordinators: Yara El-Tawil (FA & WN) & Snehal Prabhudesai (WN)
- Michigan Science Center Coordinators: Meera Kirshnamoorthy & Snehal Prabhudesai (FA)
- NLP Day Coordinators: Siyang Liu & Muhammad Khalifa
- AI Blog Editors: Trenton Chang & Vaibhav Balloli
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Events for 2021
JAN
13
2021
Dissertation Defense
Expanding Task Diversity in Explanation-Based Interactive Task Learning
Aaron Mininger
FEB
17
2021
Other Event
AI’s Impact on Research
Chad Jenkins, Oren Etzioni, Dan Huttenlocher, Maria Klawe
FEB
18
2021
Cultural
That Ain’t Right: AI Mistakes and Black Lives
Chad Jenkins, Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan
FEB
24
2021
Dissertation Defense
Improving the Generalization Performance of Deep Learning Models Applied to Clinical Time Series by Addressing Task Specific Structure
Jeeheh Oh
MAR
30
2021
AI Seminar
Toward Broad and Deep Language Processing for Intelligent Systems
Marjorie McShane, Associate Professor, Cognitive Science Department Co-Director LEIA, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
APR
13
2021
Dissertation Defense
On Learning Neural End-to-End Goal-Oriented Dialog Systems
Janarthanan Rajendran
APR
26
2021
Dissertation Defense
Sample efficient learning and generalization with text representations
Lajanugen Logeswaran
APR
27
2021
AI Seminar | Natural Language Processing Seminar
Empathy in peer-to-peer mental health support
Tim Althoff , Assistant Professor, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington
MAY
28
2021
e-HAIL Event
Virtual e-HAIL Launch Event
JUN
03
2021
Dissertation Defense
A Comprehensive Computational Model of PRIMs Theory for Task-Independent Procedural Learning
Bryan Stearns
SEP
17
2021
Other Event
Racial Disparities in Legal Enforcement: The promises (and perils) of AI?
Prof. Nicholas Camp and Prof. David Jurgens, University of Michigan
SEP
28
2021
AI Seminar
Machine Learning and Causality: Building Efficient, Reliable Models for Decision-Making
Maggie Makar, Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow, U-M CSE
OCT
01
2021
Distinguished Lecture
Natural Language Processing with People, for People, by People
Rada Mihalcea, Janice M. Jenkins Collegiate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Michigan
OCT
05
2021
AI Seminar | Natural Language Processing Seminar
Continual Language Learning through Collaborative Interaction with Users
Yoav Artzi , Associate Professor, Cornell Tech and Computer Science Department at Cornell University
OCT
12
2021
AI Seminar
The facebook files at training time: incentivizing discrimination in machine learning
Benjamin Fish, Assistant Professor, U-M CSE
OCT
19
2021
AI Seminar | Natural Language Processing Seminar
Knowledge-enhanced Text Generation: The Curious Case of Figurative Language and Argumentation
Smaranda Muresan , Research Scientist and Adjunct Associate Professor, Columbia Univ.
OCT
26
2021
AI Seminar
Inference and the “Racial Drama” of AI
Dr. Ramon Amaro, Lecturer (Assistant Professor equiv.) in Art & Visual Cultures of the Global South, University College London (UCL)
NOV
02
2021
AI Seminar
Approaches to Grounded Language Acquisition from Human Interaction
Cynthia Matuszek, Assistant Professor, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
NOV
09
2021
AI Seminar
Neural Architecture
Matias del Campo, Associate Professor, University of Michigan
NOV
10
2021
Division Event | Student Event
18th Annual CSE Graduate Honors Competition
NOV
12
2021
Other Event
Friday Night AI – “AI in Advanced Air Mobility: Drones and More“
Prof. Ella Atkins, University of Michigan’s Aerospace Engineering Department
NOV
19
2021
Interactive Systems Seminar
Improving Argumentation Skill Learning Through Artificial Intelligence
Thiemo Wambsganss, Research Associate, Institute of Information Systems at the University of St. Gallen (Switzerland)
DEC
07
2021
AI Seminar
Expanding the frontiers of AI – Applications in Environmental Conservation and Health
Ciira wa Maina , Senior Lecturer , Dedan Kimathi University of Technology (Kenya)
DEC
09
2021
Precision Health Seminar
Webinar: What Clinicians Need To Know when Using Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning–Driven Technologies in Medical Decision Making